Reports
The CTU management clearly distances itself from the lecture by Slovak conspirator Peter Stanek. It took place last week in the CIIRC building (Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics), where the CTU Rector's Office is located. The management of the CTU emphatically declares that it has nothing to do with the content of this lecture or the provision of space for this event. The rental of the CIIRC building to external parties is purely the responsibility of the Institute.
On October 28th, marking the state holiday, representatives of the Czech universities, as they do every year, honoured the memory of the founding father of the Czechoslovak Republic, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
A one-day course on the development of pedagogical, didactic and socio-psychological skills for doctoral students at CTU was held at the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies, within the framework of the cycle of Doctoral Student Days, which is organised by the Study Support department of the Central Library of CTU.
The support organisations established by the Rector's Office of the Czech Technical University in Prague - the Career Centre and the ELSA Centre for the Support of Students with Specific Needs - received special recognition in the National Career Counselling Award 2023 competition. This recognition was awarded literally for the "holistic approach to students with specific needs at CTU".
Ing. Petr Kasalický, a PhD student at FIT CTU, won the award for Best Student Paper at the Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2023), held in Los Angeles on August 6-10, 2023. Petr presented his research at the EvalRS workshop focused on evaluation of recommender systems, which he addressed in his master's thesis and continues to explore in his PhD studies.
Experts from the Masaryk Institute of Advanced Studies conducted a course entitled Transfer of Experience in Urban Development and Renewal Planning to Moldova at Alecu Russo State University in Bălți, Moldova, from 25 to 29 September, was financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and the Czech Development Agency.
Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), one of the world's most important cybersecurity conferences, brought 520 experts from 37 countries to Prague and 68 more joined online. Each year, the event significantly influences global trends in cryptology and security of embedded systems that are part of smart devices, i.e. the security of all of us. The conference was held on 10-14 September 2023 for the first time in the Czech Republic and CTU Faculty of Information Technology had the honour of hosting it.
We bring you an interview with Jakub Kaplický from the CTU CarTech student team. Every year, the team builds a new formula car for the Formula Student races and this year was really revolutionary for the team.
The Dean of the Faculty of Transportation Sciences, prof. Ing. Ondřej Přibyl, Ph. D., greeted the current Minister of Transportation Mgr. Martin Kupka in the Chair for a Guest series on Thursday, 19 October 2023
The "Ones and Zeros" faculty podcast of Faculty of Information Technology celebrates its second anniversary in October. The first monothematic episode was published by the faculty on October 10, 2021 at 10.10 am. The aim of the podcast is to answer topical questions about how information technology affects the world around us. The podcast guests are experts from FIT CTU who talk about topics such as AI, cybersecurity, supercomputers, public data, recommender systems and much more. So far, 24 episodes have been released and the total viewership has exceeded 26,900 plays. The podcast has been hosted by well-known science popularizer Sara Polak for the past two years.